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cutleryware

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Etymology

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From cutlery +‎ -ware.

Noun

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cutleryware (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of cutlery.
    • 1850, Samuel Laing, Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849; Being the Second Series of the Notes of a Traveller, London: [] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, [], page 122:
      Our middle class householder will have of household goods about him, carpets, mahogany chairs, tables, chests of drawers, curtained beds, washhand stands, crockeryware in abundance, and good cutleryware; and in his stock of wearing apparel, shirts, drawers, stockings, handkerchiefs, and such articles, whether seen or unseen, in comfortable plenty.
    • 1927 September 14, “The News from England: Birmingham Jewelry Manufacturers Report Improved Conditions in the Industry—Falling Off in Output of Alluvial Diamonds Reported in Lichtenburg District—Supply of Native Labor in Rand Gold Mining District Decreasing—Latest Jewelry Fashions”, in The Jewelers’ Circular, volume 95, number 7, page 63:
      Last month some $300,000 worth of cutleryware was imported into Britain, which provides an indication of the extent of outside competition, particularly from Germany.
    • 1985, Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain, 1700–1820, Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, →ISBN, page 37:
      And Defoe wrote in 1724 of ‘the continued smoke of the forges’ at Sheffield which were always at work, making all sorts of cutleryware.
    • 2007, William Hague, William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner, Harcourt, Inc., →ISBN, page 307:
      Wilberforce was as active as ever on the floor of the House, calling for the regulation of cast iron and cutleryware in order to prevent unfair competition with Yorkshire manufacturers, and supporting the establishment of a military training college, something of a British afterthought at the end of eight full years of warfare.